Shagduk (De re dordica, Book One): A Novel by JB Jackson
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An urban fantasy novel set in the Texas of the 1970s.
Backers: 57
Average Pledge Per Backer: $59
Funded: $3,383 of $3,000
Dates: Apr 9th -> May 9th (30 days)
Project By: J.B. Jackson
Backers: 57
Average Pledge Per Backer: $59
Funded: $3,383 of $3,000
Dates: Apr 9th -> May 9th (30 days)
Project By: J.B. Jackson
$3,383
current pledge level
Last Updated: May 9 @ 13:14 -0400 GMT
112%
of goal
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Latest News
One hour to go! 
May 9th - via: kickstarter.com
If you back at the $150 level in this last hour you will also receive a signed, numbered copy of THE PENULTIMATE MEN. Yes, all four authors have signed! There are only five in the world! The Penultimate Men, Second Edition – Pilum Press (Read More)
C'mon followers! Now's the time!
May 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Only two days more to get a signed edition from JB Jackson. A few days ago, we covered our production costs--we've covered the spread!--from here on out, you'll be showing Jackson some love. Why not make him smile like Tom Landry?! (Read More)
Eleven days to go!
April 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Jackson on inventing his world. We're so close: if even half of you following this campaign kicked in for the e-book, we'd just about make it! (Read More)
It's Special Prize Day!
April 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Hoping to draw out some of the followers who have yet to decide to pull the trigger. Today only, those of you who pledge at the Signed Hardback Level ($150) will also receive an exceedingly rare, first edition of Pilum’s first book THE PENULTIMATE... (Read More)
Fort Worth? Magic? Really?
April 24th - via: kickstarter.com
If you know you know... Fort Worth has a secret, intimate side that no outsider can really penetrate. Certain ones, however, recognize the mystery and slap it in films. JB Jackson knows this place and this time so well. He's hinted he was in the... (Read More)
Local Color 1, Henderson Pedestrian Tunnel
April 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Fort Worth is a city of mystery. A kid would be forgiven if, while looking out the window while being driven down Henderson Street with new Justin boots on his feet, he looked out at this walkway and dreamed of exploring the Mines of Moria. Don't... (Read More)
Peavey!
April 16th - via: kickstarter.com
A big part of Jackson's book is devoted to what it is like to be in a band, the ups and downs of playing gigs in a state bigger than most European countries. What is it like to be on stage, contending with band members who might not have your best... (Read More)
What do you mean "amour et destin"?
April 16th - via: kickstarter.com
"I think we gotta get another marketing guy. No--don't get rid of the old one. We need another. EXACTLY LIKE THE OLD ONE." We asked our editor in chief what makes a Pilum title. He's sometimes a little vague early in the morning. You know, a little... (Read More)
HARVEY!
April 15th - via: kickstarter.com
"Harvey," original sketch by Eddie Black Meet they mysterious Harvey, who stalks Steven throughout the pages of SHAGDUK. (Read More)
On writing SHAGDUK
April 14th - via: kickstarter.com
On Geek Gab, JB Jackson spoke about the long preparation that went into writing Shagduk. It requires extraordinary perseverance to push through one’s cherished ideas and serve the immediate dramatic imperative of story. For story's enemy is... (Read More)
What makes Pilum, Pilum? Why have a press anyway? Aren’t all writers better off shifting for themselves nowadays?
April 13th - via: kickstarter.com
Pilum Press is an ensemble cast assembled from active and disaffected publishing professionals who are dismayed about the state of genre fiction publishing. Pilum’s writers and editors have come together in a common aesthetic agenda better... (Read More)
From our correspondence with JB Jackson
April 12th - via: kickstarter.com
What was it like writing SHAGDUK? JB responds: Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine said something about his style of playing that resonated with the way I write. He said (and I am paraphrasing here), "Discover what you do well, and develop that."... (Read More)
We're over half way! Fernwood 2 Night!
April 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Sometimes you send a book out for a blurb and, when they come back, you have to do a spit-take. ...Crowley meets Fernwood 2 Night!... Well done, George Leake III, well done! So well done, in fact, that JB said we need to put that on the front... (Read More)
One hour and we're already at 40%; Gygax Quote
April 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Holy cow! We're strong out of the gate! Let's see if we can fund 100% in the next hour, while Jackson is live on the podcast GeekGab. Here's a cover blurb that should make you go Hmmmm. My father would have certainly added JB Jackson to his... (Read More)
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